Rating presidential performance / Richard Vedder andLowell Gallaway -- George Washington : an image and its influence / David Gordon -- Thomas Jefferson : classical-liberal statesman of the Old Republic / H. Arthur Scott Trask -- Supreme court as accomplice : judicial backing for a despotic presidency / Marshall L. DeRosa -- The Electoral College as a restraint on American democracy : its evolution from Washington to Jackson / Randall G. Holcombe -- Martin Van Buren : the American gladstone / Jeffrey Rogers Hummel -- Abraham Lincoln and the triumph of mercantilism / Thomas J. DiLorenzo -- Lincoln and the first shot : a study of deceit and deception / John V. Denson -- President Andrew Johnson : tribune of states' rights / H. Arthur Scott Trask and Carey Roberts -- William McKinley : architect of the American empire / Joseph R. Stromberg -- Theodore Roosevelt and the modern presidency / Thomas E. Woods, Jr. -- The use and abuse of antiturst from Cleveland to Clinton : causes and consequences / George Bittlingmayer -- From opponent of empire to career opportunist : William Howard Taft as conservative bureaucrat in the evolution of the American imperial system / William Marina.
Woodrow Wilson's revolution within the form / Richard M. Gamble -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal : from economic facism to pork-barrel politics / Thomas J. DiLorenzo -- Roosevelt and the first shot : a study of deceit and deception / John V. Denson -- Despotism loves company : the story of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin / Yuri N. Maltsev and Barry Dean Simpson -- Harry S. Truman : advancing the revolution / Ralph Raico -- From Kennedy's "new economics" to Nixon's "new economic policy" : monetary inflation and the march of economic facism / Joseph T. Salerno -- The managerial president / Paul Gottfried -- The president as social engineer / Michael Levin -- The impossibility of limited government and the prospects for a second American revolution / Hans-Hermann Hoppe -- The American president : from Cincinnatus to Caesar / Clyde N. Wilson.